After launching Shadowrun Returns this week, which was successfully through Kickstarter, developer Harebrained Schemes has announced its next project, Golem Arcana, which will seek to merge the worlds of tabletop gaming and videogames via a new crowd-funding campaign launching in August.

In the above video, Harebrained Schemes' Jordan Weisman opens by assuring fans of Shadowrun Returns that most of the team remains focused on supporting and expanding the recently-released title. After that, he discusses the concept of the new project which is described as the first tabletop game to "get rid of the rulebooks and record keeping" by using your mobile device and a unique stylus invented by the company to directly interact with the board and figures. While the demonstration in the video looks ultra simple, it very well might revolutionize how people interact with tabletop gaming moving forward.

The post announcing the project also lets us know that only a small part of the team has been assigned to work on the new project at this time and discusses how the company wanted to use crowd-funding as a means to focus on creativity within the realm of interactive entertainment.

Is this something you want to see be made? If so, you'll have the chance to back it beginning next month so be on the lookout for the Golem Arcana Kickstarter campaign to launch in August.